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This quote comes to mind: Hard times create strong people Strong people create good times Good times create weak people Weak people create hard times
by interroboink 4y ago
This quote comes to mind:
Hard times create strong people
Strong people create good times
Good times create weak people
Weak people create hard times
- brazzy 4y ago...which is a recent internet meme typically associated with counterfactual pseudo-history.
- interroboink 4y agoOh? I had never heard of that association. I just liked the quote (: Could you share a link or something on that topic? I'm curious. Certainly, the concept long-predates the internet. A bit like the yin/yang symbol, where there's a little "dot" of one color inside the other, symbolizing a similar cyclical concept of one arising from the other.
- danbolt 4y agoI can’t share any links, but I’d posit that “things getting better, then getting worse, then getting better” can seem subjective and self-fulfilling.
- brazzy 4y agoHere's a super detailed deconstruction by a historian: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/ https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
- akomtu 4y agopeople->men in the original quote
- interroboink 4y agoAh, I typed it from (faulty) memory. Though I suppose I like it this way — kinda like the updated Star Trek "To boldly go..." for TNG (:
- alanwreath 4y agoTotally tangential but you’ve described a Mormon concept https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/manual/32506/32506_000_057_08-thecycle.pdf https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/conten...